Gathered from the far reaches of our minds and experience, 100 quotes about wisdom may serve as a reminder about the importance of knowledge in our lives. Achieving true wisdom is no easy task, as it calls for us to strive for understanding each day.

To gain insight from these wise words may be to shift some perspective and arrive at a more profound level of understanding that cannot be reached without respect for life-long learning.

This collection of pearls of wisdom known through the ages can encourage us to seek out greater understanding in order to enrich our lives.

1. To make difficult decisions wisely, it helps to have a systematic process for assessing each choice and its consequences – the potential impact on each aspect of your life. -Stedman Graham
2. Don’t live the same day over and over again and call that a life. Life is about evolving mentally, spiritually, and emotionally. -Germany Kent
3. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. -Leo Buscaglia
4. The tests we face in life’s journey are not to reveal our weaknesses but to help us discover our inner strengths. We can only know how strong we are when we strive and thrive beyond the challenges we face. -Kemi Sogunle
5. Change your thoughts and you change your world. –Norman Vincent
6. The most painful moments and memories eventually lead to the greatest strengths and growth in life. -Kemi Sogunle
7. There is more to life than increasing its speed. -Mahatma Gandhi
8. You cannot marry your past without divorcing your future. -Matshona Dhliwayo
9. The truest wisdom is a resolute determination. -Napoleon Bonaparte
10. You are never too old to start over. Every day is a chance to make changes to create the life we want. -Karon Waddell
11. There are three constants in life…change, choice, and principles. -Stephen Covey
12. Because the best gift in life is just having someone to drink hot chocolate with. -Tessa Shaffer
13. To be wise, we must seek Jesus, for we will not find wisdom apart from him. -Kim Brenneman
14. Life fits the shoe you walk in. -Fakeer Ishavardas
15. God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. -Voltaire
16. Life can be simple and beautiful. Focus on the good things. –Maxime Lagacé
17. Life is a rehearsal. Get dressed and be ready to face it daily. -Kemi Sogunle
18. Once you say you’re going to settle for a second, that’s what happens to you in life. -John F. Kennedy
19. It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool than to talk and remove all doubt of it. -Maurice Switzer 
20. Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom. -Witold Gombrowicz
21. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. -Michael Jordan
22. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. -Aristotle
23. If we manage ego wisely, we get the upside it delivers followed by strong returns. -Dave Marcum
24. Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. -Henry Ford
25. I’m always doing things I can’t do. That’s how I get to do them. –Pablo Picasso
26. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. -Rumi 
27. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward. -Amelia Earhart
28. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. -Socrates
29. Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. -Albert Einstein
30. Turn your wounds into wisdom. -Oprah Winfrey 
31. Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life. -Brian Tracy
32. Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. -Jimi Hendrix 
33. Attitude, to me, is more important than money. It is more important than the future, the past, education, circumstances, failure, and success, it is even more important than what other people think or say. -Brad Hanson
34. The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you. -Tony Robbins
35. We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. -Leo Tolstoy
36. She knew the power of her mind and so programmed it for success. –Carrie Green
37. Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It’s a journey of discovery – there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair. -Rick Warren
38. Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use. -Thomas J. Watson
39. Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. -Aristotle
40. Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so. -Lord Chesterfield
41. Lessons in life will be repeated until they are learned. -Frank Sonnenberg
42. Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.
43. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. -Lao Tzu
44. It always seems impossible until it’s done. –Nelson Mandela
45. Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something. -Plato
46. It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. -Seneca
47. Learn how to take criticism seriously but not personally. -Hillary Clinton
48. The trouble is you think you have time. -Buddha
49. Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. -Francis Bacon
50. Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got. -Robert Brault
51. Stress, anxiety, and depression are caused when we are living to please others. -Paulo Coelho
52. Knowledge is the crown of the wise, folly is an inheritance of a fool. -Vusi Mxolisi Zitha
53. What you think you become. What you feel you attract. What you imagine, you create. -Buddha
54. Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. -German Proverb
55. It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to, has power over you, if you allow it. –Leon Brown
56. When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen you may learn something new. -Dalai Lama
57. Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not able to tell the difference. -Mark Twain
58. Discipline is wisdom and vice versa. -M. Scott Peck
59. The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. – Kahlil Gibran
60. The nature of life is such that the fool does not always fail, nor is the wise man always successful. -Janice Manning
61. Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans. – John Lennon
62. I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. – Abraham Lincoln
63. Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. -Zhuangzi
64. A very wise woman, Eleanor Roosevelt, famously once said, “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” Truly dwell on the wisdom of that philosophical statement for a moment. -Ian Tuhovsky
65. Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. – William Saroyan
66. Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. –Elbert Hubbard
67. Wisdom sails with wind and time. -John Florio
68. It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. -Mahatma Gandhi
69. Do not be wise in words be wise in deeds. -Jewish Proverb
70. Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don’t get so worked up about things. –Kenneth Branagh
71. A loving heart is the truest wisdom. -Charles Dickens
72. Maturity is when you stop being surprised by anything. Wisdom is when you start again. -Maxime Lagacé
73. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. –Aristotle
74. It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. -Henry David Thoreau
75. It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. –Andre Gide
76. Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility in all our views and opinions. -Gerald Brenan
77. The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life. –Confucius
78. Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn, or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. -Denis Waitley
79. Your mind is precious. It has the power to unlock infinite possibilities. –Joel Annesley
80. One part of wisdom is knowing what you don’t need anymore and letting it go. -Jane Fonda
81. Everything is a gift of the universe – even joy, anger, jealousy, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment. -Ken Keyes Jr.
82. Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. –Lao Tzu
83. Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality. –Earl Nightingale
84. Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. -Archimedes
85. Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech. -Plutarch
86. The greatest wealth is to live content with little. –Plato
87. Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -Albert Einstein
88. Your mind is your greatest power. Use it well. –Aneta Cruz
89. If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise. -William Blake
90. In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks. -John Muir
91. Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. –Marcus Aurelius
92. It’s kind of fun to do the impossible. –Walt Disney
93. We tend to think of great thinkers and innovators as soloists, but the truth is that the greatest innovative thinking doesn’t occur in a vacuum. Innovation results from collaboration. -John C. Maxwell
94. I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done. -Lucille Ball
95. Know how to listen and you will profit even from those who talk badly. –Plutarch
96. Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude. –Lou Holtz
97. Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go. -Hermann Hesse
98. Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few. –Pythagoras
99. Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind and has given up worrying once and for all. –Ovid
100. Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day. –Zen Proverb
101. So in everything, do to others as you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. –Jesus Christ
102. A fear-oriented man is always calculating, planning, arranging, and safeguarding. His whole life is lost in this way. -Osho
103. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage. -Lao Tzu

When all is said and done, wisdom is something to be treasured and sought after. It can take many forms, from the traditional knowledge of elders to the creativity and insight of young minds.

As every one of the hundred quotes highlighted, wisdom requires both understanding and insight. It encourages us to learn from our surroundings and cherish those who provide a valuable perspective on how we should conduct ourselves in life.

Ultimately, wisdom helps our lives become more meaningful; it gives us the courage to strive for greater heights and aids us in managing all that life throws at us. If ever we find ourselves wavering, then there’s nothing like reflecting back on these wise words to wisely guide us through.

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